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• Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground. Malayan Proverb
• The tree of deepest root is found Least willing still to quit the ground
  'T was therefore said by ancient sages, That love of life increased with years So much, that in our latter stages, When pain grows sharp and sickness rages, The greatest love of life appears....
• The lofty oak from a small acorn grows. -- Proverb
• Everyone pushes a falling fence. Chinese Proverb
• A pig ate his fill of acorns under an oak tree and then started to root around the tree.
  A crow remarked, `You should not do this. If you lay bare the roots, the tree will wither and die....
• He that loves the tree, loves the branch. -- Proverb
• Remove an old tree and it will wither to death. -- Proverb
• In the fields of Hell where the grass grows high Are the graves of dreams allowed to die.
• A heart in love with beauty never grows old. -- Ancient Turkish Proverb